This seminar will discuss the selection criteria when considering what form of contract your client should enter into with a main contractor. Procurement techniques and how to consider tenders and deal with tender amendments will also be discussed, as will European procurement guidelines and the effect of qualitative criteria scoring.

The session will cover how and why to amend Standard Forms of Contracts and how to incorporate documents into the contract. It will look at how to deal with ambiguities between those documents, as well as dealing with Letters of Intent.

Finally, the seminar will briefly discuss the legislative changes to the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 and what impact these have, to which contracts they apply and when they should not be incorporated.  

This seminar will prove of interest whether your client is a home owner, developer or public body.

Speaker: Robert Shawyer is a Partner with Silver Shemmings LLP Solicitors. He specialises in Construction Contracts, Law, Dispute Resolution giving contentious and non-contentious advice and training, as well as accepting appointments as mediator, conciliator, adjudicator and arbitrator. Robert is also Head of Legal Services with the Rhead Group and a Director of Alway Associates working throughout the UK and Internationally. Robert's qualifications are LLB(Hons), IBA Fellow in International Legal Practice, FRICS, FCIArb, FCIOB, FCInst CES, FSCS, FNADR, APA.

RIBA Core Curriculum topic: Procurement and contracts